Small towns, long highways, county fairs, and the strange corners of American life. These stories dig into the myths America tells about itself and what happens when those myths meet reality.
AmericanaGeorge Lucas's 1973 1962 California teen ensemble. Soundtrack establishes nostalgia template.
AmericanaRon Shelton's 1988 minor league baseball comedy. The rare sports film that captures the actual sport's culture.
AmericanaJohn Sayles' 1988 Black Sox scandal drama. The 1919 thrown World Series through procedural accuracy.
AmericanaDavid Anspaugh's 1986 small-town basketball drama. Dennis Hopper as drunken assistant.
AmericanaFord's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
AmericanaGeorge Stevens's foundational classical Western. Alan Ladd as the title gunfighter.
AmericanaWhen her van breaks down in Delmore, Oklahoma — population 43 — a travel writer discovers the last original town on Route 66 and the people who refused to leave when America moved on.
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